The relation between blood pressure and mortality due to coronary heart disease among men in different parts of the world

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Van Den Hoogen, Peggy C W ^a,b   Feskens, Edith J M ^a   Nagelkerke, Nico J D ^a   Menotti, Alessandro ^c   Nissinen, Aulikki ^d   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CORONARY RISK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034610803     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200001063420101     Document Type: Article

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